Asymptotic unbiased density estimators

Nicolas W. Hengartner; Éric Matzner-Løber

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics (2009)

  • Volume: 13, page 1-14
  • ISSN: 1292-8100

Abstract

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This paper introduces a computationally tractable density estimator that has the same asymptotic variance as the classical Nadaraya-Watson density estimator but whose asymptotic bias is zero. We achieve this result using a two stage estimator that applies a multiplicative bias correction to an oversmooth pilot estimator. Simulations show that our asymptotic results are available for samples as low as n = 50, where we see an improvement of as much as 20% over the traditionnal estimator.

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Hengartner, Nicolas W., and Matzner-Løber, Éric. "Asymptotic unbiased density estimators." ESAIM: Probability and Statistics 13 (2009): 1-14. <http://eudml.org/doc/250655>.

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